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Bhuvaneshwari.G XII - B
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
- Bhuvaneshwari
CONTENTS
Author - 4
Chapter 1 - 9
Chapter 2 - 14
Chapter 3 - 19
Chapter 4 - 25
Chapter 5 - 29
Chapter 6 - 33
Chapter 7 - 39
Review - 44
Conclusion - 45
Bibliography - 47
Rudyard Kipling
The stories:
Mowgli's Brothers
Kaa's Hunting
Tiger! Tiger!
The White Seal
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Toomai of the Elephants
Her Majesty's Servants
1. Mowglis Brothers
"It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening" when Father Wolf wakes
up. How does he know the precise time? Does he check his watch? His
iPhone? He's about to go hunt, when Tabaqui the jackal slinks up to
cause trouble. He says that Shere Khan"the Big One"has shifted his
hunting ground.
Father Wolf is angry because this tiger will scare away all the game,
making it harder for him to hunt.
Mother Wolf chimes in that the villagers hate "the Lame One", and they
might get angry enough to set the grass on fire to scare him away.
Speak of the devil; they all hear Shere Khan roaring up a storm.
Father Wolf doesn't understand why he does that; all he's doing is
scaring everything away.
Mother Wolf interprets the roar differently: She says the tiger is hunting
Man.
The narrator tells us that it's against the Law of the Jungle to eat Man,
so when the young man's cub just walks up to them, Father Wolf gently
carries him back to Mother Wolf.
They're impressed that the man's cub isn't afraid, so they decide to
raise him.
Inside their cave is safe because it's too narrow for Shere Khan to get
insidehe sure tries, though, sticking his big furry head in the cave's
mouth.
Mother Wolf yells at him, saying that one day the man's cub will grow
up to hunt him.
Shere Khan backs away, swearing to gobble that man cub up someday.
After the tiger leaves, Mother Wolf names the man's cub Mowgli, which
means "little frog".
Later, they take Mowgli to Council Rock to introduce him to the Pack,
especially Akela, the great Lone Wolf who leads them.
When they present Mowgli to Akela, Shere Khan shows up (who invited
him?) and says, "The cub is mine!".
Akela says that, according to the Law of the Jungle, "if there is any
dispute as to the right of a cub to be accepted by the Pack, he must be
spoken for by at least two members of the Pack who are not his father
and mother".
Baloo the bear and Bagheera the Black Panther speak up for Mowgli; to
sweeten the deal, Bagheera promises a fat bull to buy Mowgli's safety.
Bagheera kills the bull, and Akela agrees to admit Mowgli into the
Seeonee Wolf-Pack.
Now we skip ten or eleven years while Mowgli is taught everything he
needs to know by Father Wolf, Bagheera, and Balooit's like the text
version of a montage.
By this point, Akela is an old wolf, and Bagheera fears the day is nigh
that he will no longer rule the pack.
He's really worried, because Shere Khan is always lurking around trying
to convince the younger wolves that a man-cub has no place with the
pack.
Bagheera tells Mowgli that they have to strike Shere Khan first.
He advises Mowgli to sneak down to the village and take "Red Flower"
for Shere Khan. No, he isn't deathly allergic to rosesRed Flower is
what they call fire.
Mowgli creeps to the village and steals a pot-full of red-hot charcoal.
On the way, he spots Akela try to eat a sambhur, but instead get kicked
by it. #huntingfail
Back in the jungle, Mowgli tends to the Red Flower to keep it burning all
night long.
At the next council meeting, Shere Khan is there, trying to take control
of the Pack: "Give me the man-cub or I will hunt here always, and not
give you one bone", he says.
Akela says they are cowardly if they let Shere Khan kill the man-cub,
pointing out that "He is our brother in all but blood".
He says he will agree to step down as leader without fighting if they
simply let Mowgli go.They don't really care, probably because a deer
almost took Akela out earlier, and the wolves gather around Shere
Khan.
Bagheera tells Mowgli it is time for them to fight, so Mowgli flings the
fire-pot at Shere Khan, setting the grass aflame.
Mowgli says that he will leave for the village of man, and he promises
not to betray the wolves as they have betrayed him.
For good measure, he whacks Shere Khan in the head with a branch.
Bagheera tells Mowgli to spare Akela, so he tells the wolves that Akela
is free to live as he pleases.
As the fire closes in, Mowgli leaves with the only creatures that stood by
his side: Akela, Bagheera, and a handful of wolves.
Mowgli starts crying for the first time ever: "Am I dying, Bagheera? he
asks.
Bagheera says they are only tears.
Mowgli says goodbye to Mother and Father Wolf, then he heads down
the hillside, alone, "to meet those mysterious things that are called
men"
Baloo is teaching Mowgli the Laws of the Jungle, which include the
Master-Words of all the different animals.
Mowgli can chirp like a bird, and speak to snakes.
In his own language, Mowgli starts talking about how he'll have a tribe
of his own one day, and swing from the branches all day.
Baloo is angry, because this new fantasy means that Mowgli has been
hanging out with the Monkey-People.
Mowgli confesses that the monkeys once carried him up into the trees
and gave him nice things to eat. Baloo tells Mowgli that yes, it must be
nice that they play all day, but the Monkey-People have no Law. They're
lawless. Like Lucy.
He tells Mowgli to never associate with them again, and Bagheera is
miffed at Baloo for monkeying around and not warning Mowgli of the
monkeys sooner.
The three of them lie down for a midday nap, and while Mowgli is
sleeping, little monkey arms come down from the trees and carry him
away.
As Mowgli is carried away by the monkeys, he spots Chil the Kite and
tells him in bird-talk to tell Baloo and Bagheera where the monkeys are
taking him. Back where Mowgli was snatched, Baloo and Bagheera are
arguing. Okay, it's not much of an argument: Bagheera is blaming Baloo
for everything, and Baloo is blaming himself.
They decide they have to fetch Kaa the Rock Python to help them
against the Bandar-log, a.k.a. the Monkey-People.
When they reach the big snake, Bagheera starts telling him about all
the nasty rumors the Bandar-log have been spreading about him.
Kaa agrees to help them recover Mowgli, but they have no idea where
the monkeys took him. Just in time, Chil the Kite swoops down to say
that Mowgli was taken to the Cold Lairs, an old deserted city deep in the
jungle. Over in the ruins, Mowgli has decided he doesn't really like this
whole carefree kind of life. Also, they're not feeding him, so he's
grumpy. Mowgli wonders whether he can escape, while Baloo,
Bagheera, and Kaa split up to surround them.
When Bagheera comes sliding into a cluster of monkeys, other monkeys
grab Mowgli and hide him inside a giant dome.
Bagheera gets swarmed by monkeys and has to hide in a water tank.
Baloo stars punching monkeys left and right, and then Kaa shows up
and scares all the monkeys away.
Kaa breaks open the dome where Mowgli is trapped and frees him.
Mowgli looks so yummy, Kaa suggests that he might eat him someday,
but Mowgli agrees to repay Kaa someday by driving goats toward him.
Being hungry now, Kaa begins "The Dance of the Hunger of Kaa", a
dance which hypnotizes all the monkeys in the area, and Kaa leads
them away like he's the Pied Piper.
Baloo and Bagheera are relieved to have Mowgli back, but Bagheera
still has to punish him by giving him "half a dozen love-taps".
Now that he's punished, everyone can move on with their lives. Mowgli
falls asleep on Bagheera's back, and the Panther carries Mowgli to
Mother Wolf's cave.
Then join our leaping lines that scum fish through the pines,
That rocket by where, light and high, the wild grape swings.
By the rubbish in our wake, and the noble noise we make,
Be sure, be sure, we're going to do some splendid things!
3. Tiger!
Tiger!
Okay, we're going back to immediately where the first tale left off. Got
it? Good.
Mowgli leaves Mother Wolf's cave and heads down to the village.
The villagers are initially afraid of Mowgli, but one woman, Messua,
thinks that Mowgli looks just like her son, who was taken by a tiger.
She takes him and feeds him, and he learns to speak the language of
menhe's still not comfortable sleeping under a roof, though, so he
sleeps outside.
One night, Grey Brother (Mother Wolf's eldest) comes up to him and
tells him that Shere Khan swears to return.
Mowgli's, like, um, remember you guys kicked me out of the Pack? Why
should I care?
Grey Brother tells him that it's highly likely the men will kick him out
of their pack, too, so keep that in mind.
Mowgli struggles learning the ways of men, and considers killing the
kids who make fun of him, but "it was unsportsmanlike to kill little
naked cubs". At night, all the men gather around and tell wild tales
about the jungle. Mowgli laughs because he knows all these stories are
made-up superstitions, especially the one about the ghost tiger.
Buldeo, the village hunter, gets all up in Mowgli's face and is like, oh
yeah, well, if he's so real, why don't you go hunt him down?
The headman says that Mowgli should help herd buffalo to temper his
impertinence, and Mowgli is happy to be with buffalo instead of men.
While the buffalo graze, Mowgli gossips with Grey Brother, who says
that Shere Khan has come back and means to kill Mowgli. Mowgli is
like, bring it on. Grey Brother agrees to tell Mowgli when Shere Khan
plans on making his pounce. Finally, the day arrives, but Mowgli has a
plan: He will ride Rama, the largest buffalo, and with the help of Grey
Brother and Akela (the cast-out wolf leader), they will surround Shere
Khanwho is sleeping in the ravinewith the herd of buffalo and
trample him. They surround him, and Shere Khan is squished by buffalo.
Mowgli decides to skin him, but skinning a ten-foot tiger is tough, and
while he's trying to peel that off, Buldeo the hunter shows up and acts
like the tiger's pelt belongs to him.
Mowgli's like, you gotta be kidding me, and he summons Akela over as
though the old wolf is his familiar.
Buldeo thinks this is some sort of sorcery, and he runs back to the
village.
That night, Mowgli returns the buffalo to the village. To repay him, the
villagers chuck rocks at him and call him names like "Sorcerer!" and
"Jungle-demon!
Buldeo shoots at Mowgli, and when he hits a buffalo instead, he knows
it's not because he's a terrible shot but instead that Mowgli just came
out of the matrix or something and can move bullets in the air.
Mowgli says goodbye to Messua, who believes that he has avenged her
son's death, and heads back to the jungle with the wolves.
He wears the hide of Shere Khan and presents himself to the Pack at
Council Rock.
The wolves are impressed with Mowgli's feat, and they want Akela to
lead them again; they are sick of lawlessness.
Bagheera says, "That may not be. [] Ye fought for freedom, and it is
yours. Eat it, O Wolves". In other words, you can't have your
freedom and a leader too.
Mowgli leaves the wolves behind and decides to live by himself in the
jungle.
We're told that "years afterwards he became a man and married.
Mowgli's Song
THAT HE SANG AT THE COUNCIL ROCK WHEN HE DANCED ON SHERE KHAN'S HIDE
One day he swims out with all the young seals to a new island to party
and dance, and Kotick learns something new: that men come along and
kill them.
Some men show up and lead all the seals away, but they're scared of
Kotick, so they leave him behind.
Kotick follows, and sees "the men clubbed the seal on the head as fast
as they could"
Then, like Mowgli skinning Shere Khan, they strip the seals of their skin.
Kotick runs away and tells a sea lion what happen. The sea lion is
like, no way, dude, that would never happen, but after Kotick convinces
him it's real, the sea lion, who would shrug if sea lions could shrug, tells
Kotick that it will continue to happen unless he finds an island where
men don't go.
He sends Kotick to Walrus Islet to talk to Sea Vitch, another walrus, for
tips.
Sea Vitch sends Kotick to talk to Sea Cow, although he doesn't say what
Sea Cow looks like.
Kotick returns to Novastoshnah to talk to his parents, who both tell him
"you will never be able to stop killing" so just keep playing while all your
friends die, kidthat's life. Or in this case, that's death.
Dad's advice is weak, so Kotick keeps looking for a safe island.
But after five months of searching, he still hasn't found what he's
looking for. His mother begs him to marry and settle down, so he does
the "Fire-dance" with a hot seal babe then sets off on one last
exploration.
And he finds the Sea Cow. How now, Sea Cow?
The Sea Cow is mute, but when it swims away, Kotick follows it right
to a beach were "no men had ever come".
He makes his way home and tells all the other seals about it. They
laugh at him.
One young seal agrees to follow Kotick to the new beach if he can beat
him in a fight, so Kotick proceeds to do just that to this seal as well as a
few others, without getting a scratch.
So a bunch of seals follow him to the safe beach, and each year more
and more of the slower thinkers follow as well. Kotick marries and gets
fat and happy and never gets clubbed.
Lukannon
This is the great deep-sea song that all the St. Paul seals sing when they are heading
back to their beaches in the summer. It is a sort of very sad seal National Anthem.
5. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
One day, a summer flood washes a young mongoose named Rikki-tikki-
tavi away from his family. He's found and revived by a British family
living in India. The family adopts the orphaned mongooseor, more
accurately, he decides to stick around. Naturally curious and
adventurous, Rikki-tikki explores the family's garden the next day. There
he meets a Darzee, a tailorbird who is mourning his baby bird's death at
the hands (er, teeth) of Nag. Rikki-tikki asks who Nag is and is instantly
introduced to the big, black cobra. He also meets Nag's wife Nagaina,
so that's two cobras for the price of one. Sweet!
Having missed their chance at a surprise attack, the cobras just slither
off, and Rikki-tikki goes to hang with Teddy, the British family's son. But
Teddy gets a wee bit too close to the poisonous krait snake,
forcing Rikki-tikki to fight it. Not that he wouldn't have anyway. That's
what mongooses do, after all.
That night, Nag and Nagaina plan a sneak attack on the British family,
but they haven't reckoned with Rikki-tikki. In the ensuing battle, Rikki-
tikki kills Nag, saving the family but also really ticking off Nagaina. The
next day, Rikki-tikki sets a plan into motion to get rid of the cobras once
and for all. He has Darzee's wife act as bait to keep Nagaina occupied
(classic move). Then he heads to the cobra's nests and goes berserker
on the eggs. But all doesn't go according to plan. Nagaina sets out to
kill Teddy, forcing Rikki-tikki to bring one of her eggs as leverage. In the
epic clash of mammal-versus-reptile, Nagaina manages to snatch up
her egg and flees into her den.
Rikki-tikki gives the old girl hot pursuit, while Darzee mourns the loss
of Rikki-tikki. No one goes into a cobra's den and lives, except Rikki-
tikki, of course. He exits all action-hero style, and the family can't praise
him enough. He lives with the family from then on, protecting the
garden from snakes.
Darzee's Chant
(Sung in honor of Rikki-tikki-tavi)
7. Her Majesty's
Servants
This story begins on a rainy night in a camp of "thirty thousand
men, thousands of camels, elephants, horses, bullocks, and
mules". Which Bullocks? Sandra? Jim J?
The camel sits down and cries because the mule hurt his humps
his humps his lovely camel lumps. A large troop-horse gallops up
to join the conversation; he's mad that the camels woke him up.
The mule introduces himself as a "breech-piece mule", and the
horse says he's Dick Cunliffe's horse. The camel apologizes for
disturbing everything, blaming it on bad dreams. Then, an
elephant stumbles up, followed by another mule calling for Billy.
Billy seems to be the first mule we met here, and he does what he
can to calm down the younger mule, i.e. threatening to kick him,
too. All the animals engage in a discussion about fear and
cowardice versus bravery. Billy is the posturing type, acting like
he'll kick anything and everything; the younger mule tries not to
be afraid, but comes off as sulky. The troop-horse says he's only
brave when Dick Cunliffe is on his back. The camel's emotional
setting seems to be either scared or stupid, because he doesn't
seem to mind when the men use them as humanwell, camel
shields during gunfights. These talks escalate until the troop-horse
and the donkey start calling each other names and almost fight
each other. An elephant named Two Tails breaks up the fight, but
ends up just joining the argument. As the animals start getting
louder and louder, Little Vixen, our narrator's dog, shows up and
scares the big ol' elephant. Little Vixen runs into the makeshift
tent with her owner. This incident causes the animals to agree that
they're all afraid of certain things, and brave in other situations.
The discussion topic changes to "why we have to fight at all", and
the troop horse says it boils down to something as simple as
"because we're told to".
Finally, their late night political debate winds down and they all
return to their respective camps. The next day, the men and the
animals parade past the Viceroy and the Amir of Afghanistan. Our
narrator watches as the animals from the previous night march by
and the infantry band strikes up a song.
After the parade, a chief of the Amir comes to question an offi cer.
The offi cer says that all his men and his beasts obey their orders.
The chief says that in Afghanistan, they "obey only our own wills".
And the offi cer, twirling his moustache like Snidely Whiplash,
delivers the closing burn of the book: "Your Amir whom you do not
obey must come here and take orders from our Viceroy"
Also included are the tales of Rikki Tikki Tavi, the Elephant Dance, and the White
Seal. I would have to say that my favorite is Rikki Tikki Tavi; he's just so loveable and
wonderful. There is a sense of magic in Kiplings animals, every reader will find
themselves dreaming of being raised by wolves and taught the law of the jungle by
Baloo.
I know that this was written as a children's book - but I have a hard time believing
that a 11 year old kid would be able to read and enjoy it, the beauty of the language
will be lost on many of the younger readers who are used to the forward speaking
newer YA books. But I would assume that by middle school they should be able to
fully enjoy it.
While reading this book I came across many simple and silly plots but Im sure
children would get great pleasure from it! To sum up, the book quenches your thirst
for small adventures and teaches us about animals.
Critic reviews
"The Jungle Book" has fascinated readers for more than 100 years with its
unforgettable characters and beautifully rendered animal society.
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The Jungle Book was created into
a Disney media franchise that
commenced in 1967 with the theatrical
release of The Jungle Book. It is based
on Rudyard Kipling's works of the same
name. The franchise includes a 2003
sequel to the animated film and three
live-action films produced by Walt Disney
Pictures.
Though it has been exactly 123 years
since this classic novel for children was
published, it seems that this book is still
prominent and its stories are taken out to
the people through different forms of
media.
TaleSpin (19901991)
Animated Series Jungle Cubs (19961998)
TaleSpin (1991/1992)
Kinect: Disneyland
Adventures (2011)*
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jungle-book-rudyard-kipling
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_
Kipling
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http://www.imdb.com/list/ls07144293
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http://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/R
udyard-Kipling/The-Jungle-Books.html